Medical Diagnostic Aid and Method

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the curation and validation involves input from medical personnel.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the curation and validation comprises at least an initial stage and a final stage, wherein medical personnel involved in the initial stage are less experienced than medical personnel involved in the final stage, and wherein the medical personnel involved in the final stage select medical personnel for involvement in the initial stage.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of input medical texts are natural language texts.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the natural language texts are notes relating to a patient consultation.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of inputting of the specimen text comprises accessing a medical record linked to a patient that is the subject of the specimen text, and the outputting diagnoses, symptoms and treatments linked to the suggested medical codes for assisting medical personnel in providing a diagnosis for the patient further comprises outputting the medical record.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising updating the medical record with the output diagnoses, symptoms and treatments.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising generating a single list of top matching medical standard code from the plurality of logical components.

13. The medical diagnostic aid of claim 12, wherein the automatic coding solver is further configured to generate a single list of top matching medical standard code from the plurality of logical components.

14. A computer readable medium comprising code which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute the method of claim 1.

17. The diagnostic device of claim 16, wherein the tagging circuitry is further configured to generate a single list of top matching medical standard code from the plurality of logical components.